Wounded Warrior Project is refusing to accept a Florida Christian church’s money because it is “religious in nature,” Fox News’ Todd Starnes reports. Liberty Baptist Church and Academy, located in Fort Pierce, Fla., is also a K-12 school.

“We were heartbroken,” Pastor Wallace Cooley told Fox News.

It wasn’t until after Liberty Baptist Church and Academy had already paid a $100 registration fee to raise funds for Wounded Warrior Project that the they received an email from the non-profit organization.

“We must decline the opportunity to be the beneficiary of your event due to our fundraising event
criteria, which doesn’t allow community events to be religious in
nature,” WWP’s community events team wrote in an email. “Please note
your registration fee will be refunded within the next 7-10 business
days.”

Because Wounded Warrior Project
considers itself to be a nonpartisan organization, the group says it
can’t accept fundraising from companies “in which the product or message
is religious in nature.”

The church was reportedly planning to
accept a special offering on the last Sunday in February and students
were collecting money from family and friends to give to WWP.

“We had to tell our children and
parents we can’t give to the Wounded Warrior Project…We are second-class
citizens now because we are people of faith,” Cooley told Fox News.

The pastor said the church anticipated bringing in roughly $50,000 for military veterans.